Gary Rowett hopes his man management will be the right blend of discipline and flexibility as he strives for a better dressing-room spirit than the one helping to plunge the club towards relegation last season.

“The game’s changed and you build relationships with players," he says. "The days of you just telling the players what you want and that’s it, it’s a lot harder to do that because the world’s changing.

“If I could bring my kids up that way it would be fantastic. If I just told them what to do every day it would be fantastic.